Sata HD suddenly corrupted?

Discussion in 'Storage Devices' started by bishman82, Oct 15, 2007.

  1. bishman82

    bishman82 Geek Trainee

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    Hi, i really dont know what to do here, i'm using a new system, everything is about 2 months old and the case is well ventelated etc..

    Came home from work today, started reading emails and firefox stops responding and the window goes pale (i'm using vista) i wait to see if it recovers and i get a strange error in explorer.exe, not seen it before and this takes my taskbar away but firefox stays, I think i'll carry on using firefox and i'll restart in a minute.

    Next thing i know i have a blue screen and the machine reboots, i get a "read error from disk. press ctrl+alt+del to restart" which repeats each time i try it, so i boot from Vista DVD, try to repair the boot loader but it only recognizes an old XP installation off my second SATA disk.

    Next i go into command prompt, type c: and the c:\ drive it shows me is in reality my d: drive, i type d: and it says the file system is corrupt. Typed chkdsk d: and it gives me a similar error.

    Unplugged my second sata drive altogether attempt to install vista and it shows i have a 298Gb drive with 298Gb free space, no file system detected or anything. :doh:

    What's the best thing i do from here? there was a lot of stuff on there but it's all stuff i can get again, it will take a while but it's not the end of the world, is there any way to find out if that was a hardware faliure or a software one?
     
  2. Ferg

    Ferg Manbearpig

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    You can try loading up a distro of linux (I used the latest ubuntu recently for this reason) - perhaps of a live cd, this may be able to 'force' mount the volume allowing you to recover the data.

    Another method if this doesn't work would be to give it a quick format and then use a data-recovery software to scan the drive for your data.
     
  3. carolwhite

    carolwhite Geek Trainee

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    Do not test the drive further. Data Recovery Software as suggested by freg will help you recover your data. Install data recovery software to any another computer, which is healthy system and has the best of hardware components, then attach the drive you want to recover as a slave to this machine and then proceed ahead recovering the data. I would recommend you to try the demo first to see if the program can find your corrupt data.

    Hope this helps you.
     
  4. smitha

    smitha Geek Trainee

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    You go to that shop from where you buy your computer... surely, its in gurantee period. So you can exchange your harddisk...
     

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